Most Asked Questions: Should I be content in my singleness?

Set Apart Podcast

Leslie Ludy

Religion, Education, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.7 • 955 Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2024

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Leslie continues her Most Asked Questions series with a Biblical look on contentment in singleness. Many voices in modern Christianity imply that it is not possible to be happy or fulfilled in the single years. It's true that God designed us for relationship with others and, for most of us, He designed us for marriage. But as Leslie shares in this episode, it is not true that Jesus alone isn’t enough to fulfill us at the deepest level, even if every form of human companionship is stripped away. God has a tremendous purpose for our single years. This episode shows us that contentment in Christ is possible by His enabling grace, whether married or single, whether in plenty or in want, whether in easy circumstances or difficult ones. Even if we never experience earthly marriage, we can be completely fulfilled by our relationship with Jesus Christ.

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0:00.0	I am Lesson, the host of the Set Apart podcast, biblical encouragement for women of all ages.
0:14.8	We are in our most asked question series and this week we're going to tackle the questions
0:19.7	should I be content in my singleness. Now maybe you're past the single years but you know
0:25.2	single women in your life who struggle with the issue of contentment and
0:29.4	patience and embracing the season that they're in and we're not going to tackle the question can I be content in my
0:35.8	singleness but should I be content in my singleness I'll explain what I mean
0:39.6	by that in a few minutes really quickly I wanted to let you know that there is room in our week-long intensive
0:45.6	at Ellerslie that's happening August 3rd through 9th. So even if you can't make it to one of our
0:50.0	five-week programs the week-long is an amazing way to just get away from the
0:54.0	keros and distractions of daily life sit at the feet of Jesus go deeper in
0:57.4	truth so we love to see you there and there's also a fall program that is five
1:01.8	weeks long which is so amazing and it's just
1:04.4	truly life-changing to come away for a season and be so immersed in truth and
1:08.9	strengthened in your faith. I also wanted to mention that we have a new online store for all things set apart
1:15.2	so that can be found at shop dot set apart.org and our training programs can be found
1:20.5	at Ellerslie.com or you can click the links in the podcast
1:23.5	description for information on any of that. So let's talk about should I be
1:28.2	content in my singleness. Now last episode we talked about true modesty which is a controversial issue in the church today
1:36.0	and this issue of contentment and singleness is also controversial because God did create marriage and
1:42.2	marriage is clearly a blessing and it's a good gift from him and he placed the desire for marriage in our hearts and because of all of that there is a message targeting Christian singles today that they should feel totally
1:54.8	fine about being frustrated and discontent during their single years because again
1:58.7	clearly marriage is a good thing and it was created by God and these desires for
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